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Dallas is winning like I forecast it to be the number 3 spot and Houstonians have childish ways when it come to Dallas being more important.You in Illinois must have never been out of the state thinking Dallas is anything less then what I said ha ha ha.

Dallas is doing big things and Houston,Atlanta,Chicago and etc.......need to get out of town more why Dallas is metro 7million strong and coming for Chicago spot.

Lol, almost 7 million strong and no one cares about Dallas, except the people in Dallas

Nope. I'm talking about the actual city of dallas where folks live. Look at the area where paul quinn college is located and tell me thats "urban"? It was in the news recently that there are parts of the city that dont even have sewers. Kinda hard to be a model of urbanity when your residents are still on septic systems. Hell, the fair park area looks like a small, poor country town. Look at Pleasant Grove....nothing "city" about it. Same goes for coming into dallas from the west on i30.

This is why my mom calls Dallas a giant Waco. Her extent of the city is mostly south of I30 though. Once you get north of it, that's when it begins to look like a large city. But South of i30 looks like a small country town.

Mainly, because companies don't want to invest in the Southern areas of Dallas. Once the racial turnover started the investment stopped. Mayor Rawlings is doing a great job trying to get investment into Southern Dallas, that's where the potential growth is.

I put "rural" in quotation marks for a reason. For a major city, large parts of south dallas look country and undeveloped. I live in dfw. Have you driven down 45? Ledbetter? Theres NOTHING urban about that. Dallas posters like to trumpet uptown/downtown but ignore the fact that there are large sections of the city that look the total opposite.

Large portions of I-45 cannot be developed because of the Great Trinity Forest and the Trinity River Floodplain. Bruh, Ledbetter/Loop12 is NOT rural.

I didn't travel around enough of the metro to fairly judge, but from my last visit to the Miami area, anything around Miami Gardens up to Fort Lauderdale didnt feel like I was in as large of a Metro as it feels riding around Atlanta. Unless it "feels larger" south of that point then I guess my opinion would stay the same.

There's another 1.4 million people North of Fort Lauderdale up in Palm Beach County. Then there's another 1.8million residents living in Dade County South of Miami Gardens. Miami Gardens is an exburb on the Northern tip of Dade County, it's not even in Miamis city-limits and it's nowhere close to the population centers of Downtown Miami and Miami Beach. The area from Miami Gardens to Fort Lauderdale that you visited only accounts for maybe half the metro area at most. Pretty much the equivalent of visiting downtown Sandy Springs and Marrietta without even entering the city limits of Atlanta.

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